Chapter 260


    The man took a few glimpses of Crystal’s exposed cleavage and pulled her in. “Hehe. Sure. Stand


    beside me. I’ll take care of you.”


    From my angle, I could see it very clearly. How Crystal was intentional facing away from Lyle and how


    she pulled the man’s hand into her shirt, licking her lips coquettishly. “You’re so kind, mister.”


    I was disgusted, seeing that Lyle waspletely unaware of what went on as he tirelessly tried to get a


    signal. I shook my head. Lyle trusts Crystal too much. It’s totally different from how we used to be.


    But then, Crystal smiled and turned towards Lyle. “Lyle,e quick. This kind man here is willing to let


    us cut the queue.”


    Lyle hurried over, and soon there was amotion at the front, but I did not concern myself with it.


    Right then, there was another explosioning from the left side of the ship.


    This time, it was fairly close. As soon as that happened, smoke blurred out my vision, and the ship


    started shaking violently. Fire burst out as splinters flew everywhere. The people at the epicenter of the


    st were instantly engulfed in me.


    The people around it, however, were not as lucky. Their bodies were blown into pieces. There was


    even a head that flew from the st towards me and Christopher. We were both on the floor at the


    moment with me in his embrace, so all I could feel was the heat until that head appeared beside my


    hand.


    It was the head of a fine young man, eyes wide open and covered in blood.


    Life was fragile. You could be alive and kicking for one second and blown to bits in the next. No one


    would care about what happened to the remains, and it would just sink into oblivion along with the ship.


    However, when I saw the head, I did not even make a sound. I did not even have time to be afraid


    because a man pointed at the st and shouted, “The lifeboats got destroyed! We’re all doomed!”


    He was crying, a six-foot-tall man, crying, while I was doing my best not to shed a tear.


    “There are rafts over there. Let’s go!” Christopher did not panic. On the contrary, he became calmer,


    pushing through the crowd with me in his hand. After a brief moment, he was afraid that we would get


    separated again, so he decided to tie our hands together with the rope he picked up along the way.


    Suddenly, the mast snapped because of the shaking and fell directly towards me. I froze up and closed


    my eyes, not knowing what to do. I was in shock, and my legs just would not budge.


    Christopher immediately shielded me with his body as the mast barely missed us, falling right beside


    us.


    The tremor I felt as it smashed onto the ground reminded me how close death was at that moment.


    “Lyle, Lyle! Are you okay? What happened? Wake up! Is there someone who can help us?” Crystal was


    crying while holding onto Lyle’s hand.


    I turned around and saw that Lyle was lying on the ground with Crystal in front of him. It looked like he


    pushed her out of the way and got hit by the mast. His leg was under it, mangled. “Crystal, leave me be


    and run!” Lyle’s face was pale as snow.


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    I turned towards Christopher and met eyes with him. He instantly understood what I was thinking and


    headed over to Lyle with me. We tried pushing the mast away, but it was just too heavy.


    “Come help!” I shouted at Crystal seeing that all she did was cry.


    With that, Crystal immediately got up and helped us. With our forcesbined, we managed to push


    the mast away, letting Lyle escape. That said, he could only stand with Crystal’s help as his left leg was


    covered in blood.